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Originally Posted by Harmon
I downloaded a copy of Dracula from the Sony/Borders Google Books section. It is a poorly formatted book. Gobbledygook on about every third page, interpolations of what must be the original photoscan of the volume.
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Googlebooks are all automatic OCR conversions with no corrections; many of them are atrociously formatted. (They're not formatted. They're auto-converted; formatting depends on the layout of the original & quality of the scans.)
However, Dracula is popular enough that it's available on almost every site that has public domain books, including this one:
formatted by JSWolf:
Stoker, Bram: Dracula v2.0 2007-12-18
And Feedbooks:
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Googlebooks is for looking for books that haven't been converted elsewhere. For public domain works, look here first, then Feedbooks, then Manybooks (they do less formatting), then Gutenberg. If you can't find it, THEN look at Googlebooks.